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DELIVERANCE
rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
(noun) recovery or preservation from loss or danger; “work is the deliverance of mankind”; “a surgeon’s job is the saving of lives”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
deliverance (countable and uncountable, plural deliverances)
Act of delivering or conveying something.
Delivery in childbirth.
Extrication from danger, imprisonment, rescue etc.
Synonyms
• (act of delivering, something delivered): delivery
Source: Wiktionary
De*liv"er*ance, n. Etym: [F. délivrance, fr. délivrer.]
1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden.
2. Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.
3. Act of speaking; utterance. [Archaic] Shak.
Note: In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used.
4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak.
5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [Scot.]
6. (Metaph.)
Definition: Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SPRINGBOARD
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
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